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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DP.  I'm laughing at the idea that FCPS needs to guess which kids might have been prepped and misuse a teacher profile tool (HOPE) to keep them out of AAP.

Kids who are prepped have involved parents who value academics.  They're going to be the ones in enrichment classes.  If they struggle, the parents will get tutors.  They can handle the program just fine.

Since AAP is at best a mildly accelerated program, it should be available for any kid who can handle it.  That would include the kids with high scores on the CogAT or NNAT, prepped or otherwise.  It would also include kids with high iready scores, whether or not they're in enrichment.  And it should include the kids that the teachers think belong.  There's no reason to restrict access.  [/quote]

Keep rationalizing your craziness![/quote]
Keep rationalizing your misuse of the HOPE scale.  The NAGC documentation provided earlier in this thread and again here says:  
"In other words, some students scored high on the achievement measure, but did not receive high teacher ratings on the HOPE Scale.  Perhaps such students have negative behaviors, and they may be at risk of underachievement and not being placed in a program if the program requires high scores and teacher recommendations.  We believe that their high scores on either measure should result in placement."
https://davis.agendaonline.net/public/Meeting/Attachments/DisplayAttachment.aspx?AttachmentID=238383&IsArchive=0

In the same paper, they advocate using HOPE for inclusion rather than exclusion, meaning HOPE should be used to lift kids into AAP who otherwise don't have the stats.  It's not intended to keep kids out who do.

The HOPE scale was never designed to detect possible test preppers or exclude kids from receiving gifted services who otherwise seem to have the stats.  It's purely a tool to lift kids into programs like AAP who show potential and who might have otherwise been overlooked.  [/quote]

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